Toshiba today announced a new range of slim and stylish USB2.0 Toshiba Portable External Hard Drive with capacities of up to an ultra-high capacity of 400GB. It comes in four capacities (160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 400GB) to choose from and is denoted by the hard drive colors: Aurora Green, Blaze Red, Night-cat Gray and Electric Blue. It weighs just 171g.

SINGAPORE, 29 October 2008 – Toshiba’s Computer Systems Division (CSD), a division of Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd, today announced a new range of slim and stylish USB2.0 Toshiba Portable External Hard Drive with capacities of up to an ultra-high capacity of 400GB. This series is the latest addition to Toshiba’s MUST-HAVE GADGETS, Toshiba branded Options and Accessories that are built to further enhance the Toshiba Notebook PC user experience

With over 20 years of hard drive development and manufacturing experience, the Toshiba Portable External Hard Drive is a combination solution of backup, portability and protection of all your important data, music, videos, photos and more! Designed to fit right to consumers’ lifestyle, this External Hard Drive comes in four capacities (160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 400GB) to choose from and is denoted by the hard drive colors: Aurora Green, Blaze Red, Night-cat Gray and Electric Blue.

With the new ultra-high capacity 400GB drive, you can store as many as 114,000 digital photos, 105,000 MP3 music files, 177 hours of DVD videos or 47 hours of high definition videos – ample room for the most voracious content hoarder!

Weighing just 171g, the drives’ slim and stylish design fit right into trendy lifestyles, and its USB-powered capabilities, plug-and-play functionality and internal shock protection make them convenient to carry around. The Toshiba Portable External Hard Drives are preloaded with NTI Shadow software, an easy-to-use back up solution for both PCs and Macs.

Key Features and Benefits

• Trendy “Swirl” design with four different colors• Capacities of up to 400GB• USB powered for portability• Small size saves desktop space• Plug and play, ready to go out of the box• Easy to use NTI shadow backup software that works with both Windows and Macs• Internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help protect your drive• Simple solution for backup or increasing computer storage